outfront next, the trump pinted judge making her first ruling in the classified documents case. is it a sign she s not stepping aside? new details about the judge. why a case she s working on now could shed light on how she ll rule in trump s case. plus, a graveyard of russian missiles. ukrainians utilizing putin s deadliest weapons. what they found may surprise you. a special report. and where is melania and ivanka and the family? trump s 2024 campaign is anything but a family affair. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. no recusal. the judge who was appointed by trump and is presiding over the classified documents case issuing her first order. a sign she has no plans to heed the calls to recuse herself. ordering both parties to start the process of obtaining security clearances for their lawyers by tomorrow. it comes as there are mounting questions about her record in past cases. the judge, who was piappointed 2020, has little experience in oversee
friday, calling smith a fascist tyrant, maniac and other derogatory names even calling bill barr a gutless tig. if even half is true, then he s toast. he s not a victim here. he was totally wrong. this as most of the 2024 republicans and trump senate allies fell into line behind the former president despite the implications for national security. he did not commit espionage. he s not a spy. he s overcharged. and joining us today, democratic virginia congresswoman and former cia officer, abigail spanburger. former nato commander and michael beschloss. meanwhile, russia has arrested another american, accusing michael travis leak on charges of drug dealing. accusations he denies. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. a defiant former president trump on the attack against his accusers before heading to court tomorrow if his schedule holds. first, he needs to name a new florida attorney. at the arraignment, he s supposed to hear the charges against him, have his f
p crane to help pick up overturned train cars where they believe there are still bodies buried underneath there. sadly, they say that hope of any survivors emerging is very small at this stage. you ve just had this almost perfect storm of a crash of three separate trains, two passenger trains and a cargo train that happened friday evening in the countryside. the cause of this is going to be investigated, of course. we have indian railroad officials have told cnn that they believe it could have been a signaling failure of some sort. that could have either been human error or some sort of technical breakdown. prime minister modi was supposed to be launching a brand new high-speed train today. instead he rushed to the scene of this disaster to meet with survivors to express his condolences and vow for some kind of justice, saying whoever was responsible for this would have to pay for this. the indian railroad network is massive. you have more than 13 million people a day who m
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we start this hour with breaking news. an update now on where things stand with the breaking news we ve been telling you about. f-16 fighter jets scrambled around washington, d.c., earlier today shortly before a small plane crashed in virginia. here s what it sounded like. take a look at this video from one person s security camera in the d.c. area. you can see there, that little dog that was on that back porch, back deck was scared badly by the sonic boom. we re working the story right now. let s start with cnn s natasha bertrand. if you can, update our viewers on where things stand with this situation. it caught a lot of people by surprise here in the washington, d.c., area a few hours ago. yeah, let s walk folks through the series of events. a lot of things appeared to happen around the same time. around 3:00 p.m. there was a loud sonic boom that was heard across d.
possible accountability for donald trump. nbc has exclusively learned the grand jury examining trump s handling of classified documents will reconvene this week. nbc writes the jury will be concerned considering, quote, to central legal questions. one, did trump wrongfully retain classified documents after he left the white house? and two, did he lay her obstruct the governments efforts to retrieve them? prosecutors have already played a tape of trump discussing highly sensitive military intelligence he took from office and it is not the only recording. the new york times reports the jury will also hear a voice memo from trump s lawyer, evan corcoran, describes trump s conversations about the mar-a-lago case in great detail. on the corner, timing matters. this off this hour, msnbc legal analyst, lisa reuben. lisa, we ve had some false alarms about the grand jury in previous reporting, predicting an indictment right after memorial day. how significant is it that they are rec